The payments world could very well be living in the Upside Down. The Upside Down is the fictional parallel universe controlled by a hive mind and humanoid predators called Demogorgons, made popular by the 2016 Netflix smash hit "Stranger Things." The Upside Down looked sort of like the real world, but much spookier and a lot scarier. Some who entered the Upside Down never made it out alive — and those who did were never the same. The first two seasons of "Stranger Things" were all about the efforts of Eleven — a paranormal psychic — and the townspeople living in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, to keep the hive mind from turning the real world into their upside down. Over the last couple of weeks, there have been a few developments that suggest there could be some stranger things lurking in our own upside down, payments parallel universe. Facebook Wants Access to User Bank Accounts Talk about the upside down. Facebook has reportedly had conversations with banks about giving Messenger access to user ...

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(Natural News) The concept of "demonic possession" is nothing new; various religions across the world have talked about, and have recorded, experiences with this phenomenon. Supernatural (or perhaps otherworldly) occurrences can influence a human being to perform acts that an otherwise rational person would not do. Reread that last sentence very carefully. There are several...

When was the last time you were amazed? Was it the first time you used Uber and got a car on demand? Perhaps it was that movie you'd never heard of but loved after getting a recommendation from Netflix. Maybe it was the first time you used Amazon's Alexa and you could start listening to your playlist with a simple voice command. Whatever the example, that "first time" experience was one of surprise, delight and magic. If we pull back the curtain, however, the magic was really the underlying artificial intelligence that powered the experience. Thanks to the perfect storm of scalable and affordable cloud computing, smarter software that can learn, and a deluge of data from every aspect of our connected lives, we are truly at the dawn of the AI era. This virtuous circle will be the engine ...

One more sitcom revival is coming to TV next season--but unlike Roseanne, Will & Grace, The X-Files and the upcoming Murphy Brown, this returning series isn't a '90s hit. Next season, Fox is bringing back sitcom Last Man Standing--which starred Tim Allen as the married father of three girl--just one year after ABC canceled it....

An audiobook coming out this fall will reveal some influences behind the wizardry of Harry Potter. The audio producer and seller Audible Inc announced today that "Harry Potter: A History of Magic" will go on sale October 4. Narrated by Natalie Dormer of "Game of Thrones" fame, the book will feature "hidden stories" about magic and tell of the manuscripts, myths and other artifacts that JK Rowling drew upon for her blockbuster fantasy series. The audio work will be published by Rowling's Pottermore Publishing and can be pre-ordered at www.audible.com/historyofmagic . It also serves as a companion to a Potter exhibition that ran last year at the British Museum and will be seen this fall at the New-York Historical Society. Audible is owned by Amazon.com.

Through captivating skill and mystique, magicians have been making people believe in magic for centuries. Now the wonder and excitement of magical illusions are captured on U.S. Postal Service Forever stamps.